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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb --args does not work in emacs/src ...
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:58:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve4pyghh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802152243.m1FMheSv013549@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:43:39 -0800")

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>   > OTOH , it doesn't bother me if you want to delete the set args line from
>   > .gdbinit in the repository.
>
> Thanks. I did that.  The value of having gdb --args working seemed much
> higher than adding --geometry to the command line.

Seriously, the --geometry thing sounds just sort of weird.

[It's the sort of thing that that feels like it was probably added to
address some temporary debugging problem someone was having 15 years ago
and then accidentally got checked in with other changes...]

-Miles

-- 
Aborigines, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly
discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11  6:32 gdb --args does not work in emacs/src Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11  7:56 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-11 15:21   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 16:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 17:09       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 16:59         ` Tom Tromey
2008-02-11 19:51         ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-15 22:43           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-15 22:58             ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-02-17 13:22               ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 14:41                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-17 15:01                   ` David Kastrup

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